Two Tu-95 missile carrier aircraft have completed a planned flight into airspace over the neutral waters of the Bering Sea in the Pacific, Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. Total flight time was more than 7 hours. The flight was carried out in accordance with international rules for the use of airspace, the Russian ministry said.
Meanwhile, tensions are skyrocketing over NATO: three Russian fighter jets have been intercepted by Dutch F-35s over Poland. According to local media reports, which cite the Dutch military, the planes would have flown in formation. From the first indications of the Dutch Ministry of Defence, it would be an Il-20M (also known as Coot-A) and two SOe-27 (Flankers): the Coot-A was conceived as a spy plane. Flankers are more modern jet fighters. The Russian fighters would have left the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad towards Poland and would have arrived ‘at the border’. The Dutch F-25s ‘would have escorted them at a distance’ and after some time would have ‘delivered’ them to another, unspecified NATO country.
Source: IL Tempo
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